ORCID Organization Update

Participants Meeting18 May 2011

Howard RatnerChairman, ORCID, Inc.

CTO, Executive VPNature Publishing Group

Key Constituents

Researcher Joins faculty Joins student body

Applies for grant

Submits Manuscript

Helps track output offaculty and students

Helps perform researchassessment of grantees

Streamline data inputCreates author links- to publications- to collaborators- to other forms of communication

Why?

220 Participants

Newest Participants (Jan-May 2011)

Timeline 2010Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

Alpha Prototyping

Profile Exchange Research & Development

ORCID Members Demonstration and

Alpha Testing

Organization Creation

Build Sandbox

Principles/Scope Defined

Wellcome /MIT Survey

Alpha Testing

Timeline 2011-12 (draft)Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012

Profile Exchange Research & Development

Start Registering ORCIDs

Build Phase 1

Start Collecting FeesSponsorship

Drive 1 Sponsorship Drive 2

Build Phase 2

Staff Hired

Mellon Marketing Research

VIVO Technology Research

Board of Directors (October 2010)Chair, Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing Group*Treasurer, David Kochalko, Thomson Reuters*Secretary, Amy Brand, Harvard University*

Bernard Rous, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.*Salvatore Mele, CERN — European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSimeon Warner, Cornell University LibraryEd Pentz, CrossRef/Publishers International Linking Association, Inc.*Chris Shillum, ElsevierMartin Fenner, Hannover Medical SchoolMacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LibrariesHideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics (NII) (Japan)Thomas Hickey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust*Craig Van Dyck, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.*

*Executive Committee10

Working Group ChairsBusiness Working Group – Craig Van Dyck / Ed Pentz

Technical Working Group – Brian Wilson

Outreach Working Group – Martin Fenner

Audit Committee – Craig Van Dyck

Nominating Committee - tbd

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What Makes ORCID Different?

• ORCID is the only researcher identifier that is not limited to discipline, institution or geographic area

• ORCID is backed by a non-profit organization with over 220 participants behind it

• ORCID is backed by many different stakeholders

• Publishers are an important ORCID stakeholder but are just one part

• ORCID is serious about building an open system